eggs, eggs, eggs

The last time I got eggs the cost for a dozen large eggs was $170.  Today that same dozen large eggs is $350.  That's like double from just two weeks ago.  I mean, WTF!  After checking several other places it became painfully clear.  The price of eggs has gone up faster than Bertha Butt's DD tanktop.  It seems there's an avian flu in the hen house requiring termination with extreme prejudice for millions of egg laying foul.

As this domestic foul holocaust is taking place, the price of chicken meat is going down.  I'll say that again.  The price of chicken meat is dropping faster than Suzie Rottencrotch's pretty pink panties.

But how can this be?  Is KFC buying disease ridden chicken corpses?  Does deep frying kill avian flu?  Well, maybe.  But there's a logical reason for the cost of chicken to drop.

It seems broilers (the ones we eat) are kept separate from laying chickens and are ready for human consumption when they reach the tender age of six months.  They keep the egg producing, laying chickens going for a year before termination.  For reasons no one knows, the broilers don't get avian flue while their egg laying sisters do, resulting in a broiler glut and a lack of layers both at the same time.  Adding to this imbalance, Asian markets aren't accepting American produced chicken meat because of our avian flu ridden chicken industry.

So, the cost of chicken meat has gone down 5 cents a pound while eggs double in price.  Uh hu...

At any rate, I visited a bunch of food stores today to observe shoppers and I can honestly say I didn't see one person buying eggs.  What I did see was a lot of eggs with high prices, ignored by everyone.  Egg shortage my ass!

I'm so tired of greedy bastards everywhere I turn around.  I'm sick of it and if you are too I encourage you to make a stand and stop rewarding these greedy bastards for their bad behaviour and don't buy their eggs.  Do without them for awhile and watch them drop their prices.  Eggs have a limited shelf life and if no one buys them they get tossed in the dumpster and their profit margin goes down.  They lower their prices to get you to buy but if we hold out for another month or two they lower their prices even more and dump that lot if it doesn't sell and lose more money.  After a few months of crappy sales they'll roll their egg prices back to 1979 just to keep afloat.  By October we'll have grade A large eggs going for 79 cents a dozen.

Yeah, dream on Babbs.